Tokumo, Kana http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5147-4829
Komatsu, Kaori
Yuasa, Yuki
Murakami, Yumiko
Okumichi, Hideaki
Hirooka, Kazuyuki
Nakakura, Shunsuke
Tabuchi, Hitoshi
Kiuchi, Yoshiaki
Article History
Received: 19 February 2021
Revised: 18 May 2021
Accepted: 27 May 2021
First Online: 14 June 2021
Declarations
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: The Institutional Review Board of Hiroshima University Hospital and Saneikai Tsukazaki Hospital approved the study protocol before recruitment began. This study was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry of Japan (identifier University Hospital Medical Information Network 000008980; date of access and registration, September 25, 2012). The tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients before the surgical procedure.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.